Show nOIl KOKS 01 terrible sufferings lugs of a man aitho t had a bedino a victim of the drug ta family doctor in cassells Cae eells magazine A decided case of isis ik T I 1 said to myself in as soon as I 1 entered e red 1 the room and saw my patient dying ying advanced vinced on his back in bed ed Ad advanced F stage too I 1 do much I 1 ask asked ij ri 11 0 agia at 11 he replied but I 1 am dying by T inches for all that I 1 don dont know now that ishall I 1 shall ever leave this bed alive and it is perhaps forthe for the best fora for feir fearfully fully boudo not see ine me at ln 0 WO but best it lt is toward evening my dreadful distress begins the restlessness the indescribable na ing tearing and dragging at my 11 heart eart and this continues till 9 ocl ock when I 1 take my draught draur lit ihen then it is all over I 1 sink inta a asle asleele sleepy elf and I 1 am ashead dead as ft stone until morning Your draught I 1 said feeling the pulse which was soft feeble endslow endslow and slow what draught he merel hit head to a table stood to the bed I 1 took ife rf buliga p it contained some abi white ite crysta crystalline af line stance uce in large scales I 1 smelt it why I 1 saul said this is cli chloral loral ya c much orthis of this it he ile smiled faintly and sadly it has already done its work I 1 take two drachus drachms a night if a ray of bope is centered ed in you heard you are a practical do with me as you will 1 I am a practical man I 1 replied very I 1 pu put t the bottle bottle of chloral into my rpy pocket as I 1 spoke and buttoned rn my coa coat t a V 1 1 1 I shall never forget the despair in look he gave me 1 I must not give it up all afonce at once surely doctor you your do not janow what abill pain will be no name for it torture torment no jjames oame ji i yes all at once I 1 insi insisted it only chance choose that or death it seems to roe me ha murmured it is libb or it is indeed life or death I 1 re plied do as I 1 wish you to submit yourself youre elf entirely to me and with gods GoV shelp help I 1 will al raise rais eyou you again 0 and soon from that bed of sickness androu and you will be once more ore a mian roan 1 from that very moment I 1 had hope of the case for ifa if a chlorn list can 9 give ive up alie habit babit he has no desire to resume it all that thal nl night 1 8 sat al up ilp with my unhappy patient his ili I 1 sufferings uffie rings were dreadful to witness it was wasa the tearing and gnawing at dt the heart he complained of most it ivak was an im immense in clise crab eating his very vitals he lie said how he tossed and moaned and raved sometimes es hanging with his head bead down out ut of tl the bed for relief pitilessly moaning all night I 1 ho he slept a little during the next day jay and took a little nourishment A salutary diarrhoea took place and ho lie was wai reduced in in every way to a mere inere shadow on the fifth evening I 1 offered him a dose of chloral r afif LO fw I 1 f f r i were vere 15 to be T A made 1 a prince of the realm he said vo uld I 1 swallow one grain of oatlie tle dreadful pois poison 9 what maio you commence tho the ha habit b it I 1 asked 1 I had a bad tooth waa a the an efter the reply only shows the truth of what I 1 have already eaid aid that abe in most abst trifling excuse Is is often cicet to induce people to meddle with death dealing narcotics narco tica n 11 f do not imagine that my patient 9 got t better all at once after giving up the use of chloral no nor givina die h he e soon during the first few weeks the state of his mind was one of what whitt I 1 might inight call morbid joyfulness he had aca escaped ped out of the J jaws aws of death and aud there was mental elatedness in consequence but this boon gave place to fits of the greatest and darkest despondency they did not last very long seldom more than a day and in this lay X my hope of being able to thor hughly ou ahl restore him to at least a fair faff state of healthfulness healthful nesa this condi tion of mind Itis las months but bu although weak in body he lie tia wa sablou to take a considerable amount of e in the opeil air and ho was able foreid to read at home during the latter stages of no he could neither read nor write without the greatest suffering erini his exercise was walking and I 1 took pains to see that he lie went somewhere with some special s object in iii view v ew for I 1 donot do not believe dumbat tn what I 1 call circular ar walking ex es arcise simply going outa out a certain distance at aud lid coming coining back gain paying a visit of ceremony to a distant milestone docs doo not constitute ic a healthful walk the first real sign sign 1 0 of f returning return returning in 9 health in my iny despon desponding din 0 patie patient nt was ilia his abili ability to sleep tolerably tole tolerably well the second the desire he be began to evince to bo be once more en raged in active pursuits thia this de do siro sire be evinced in ina a sio eio gul gular ag way he supplied himself with d a box of mysteriously small tools and I 1 often found him day after day working at the table with a magnis magni glass stuck in in one eye he ile was making a kind of fairy music box and when completed the whole thing was no big bigger 9 er than a thimble it is playing now he said to bac onedas one day f j 1711 cam ean hear bea r nothing my patient smiled and enalo enclosed sed hh his wonderful little instrument in a worsted ball from this an elastic tube with a nipple at the endom it extended puttee Put the dippi 1 in your ear he said I 1 did so and was astonished I 1 could hear hw it now as loud alpar antly as a church organ but as sweet and soft as an keolian harp barp 1 I 1 put the ball under my ray pillow at iho he said and the in in my aarand go 0 to sleep to music my desponding patient is still alive and well desponding now no more for lie no longer needs even the dulcet tones of that fairy music music box to tw woo vm him to 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